posterior

Posterior Give your backend services intuitive front-end interfaces (uses XHR, JSON, Promise) via declarative, hierarchical configurations.

Download: posterior.min.js or posterior.js
Bower: bower install posterior
NPM: npm install posterior

Example

var GitHub = new Posterior({
    url: 'https://api.github.com',
    load: function() {
        console.log('Requested:', this.cfg.url);
    },
    ESHA: {
        url: '/repos/esha/{0}',
        Version: {
            follows: 'tags_url',
            then: function(tags) {
                return tags[0].name;
            }
        }
    }
}, 'GitHub');

GitHub.ESHA.Version('posterior');

Release History

• 2014-09-08 v0.1.4 (initial)
• 2014-09-09 v0.2.3 (debug mode, preprocess, no global)
• 2014-09-16 v0.3.1 (timeout->error, async fix, direct XHR cfg, status mapping)
• 2014-09-17 v0.4.0 (retry options, css activity notification)
• 2014-09-19 v0.5.4 (XHR tests, json cfg shortcut, better structure, safer copy, responseObject property, et al)
• 2014-09-24 v0.6.2 (s/serialize/transformData, s/preprocess/configure, better debug output)
• 2014-10-13 v0.7.3 (support all XHR events, JSON default, resolve/reject promise with response/error, request/responseData handler support)
• 2015-03-12 v0.9.3 (switch to better Promise polyfill, rename to Posterior, support 'parent' property, expose config props with getters)
• 2015-07-28 v0.10.1 (fix retry, cache, and require features)
• 2015-08-05 v0.11.0 (support both ${key} and {key} in URL templates)
• 2015-08-08 v0.12.0 (s/share(d)Result/save(d)Result, and support dynamic link relations via new 'follows' property)
• 2015-08-13 v0.13.0 (upgrade config string filling to also resolve args by index and nested data)
• 2016-05-18 v0.14.1 (support failure listener for non-200 status codes, pass XHR to configured catch functions, don't override specified Accept or Content-Type headers)
• 2016-05-20 v0.15.0 (API.resolve can now support repeated replacements when consuming data, consume array data, and is easier to use as util)
• 2016-05-23 v0.16.0 (add throttle:{key,ms} support)
• 2017-03-27 v0.17.0 (distinguish subfunction from props via capitalization or @, bind then/catch functions to built cfg)